I have a stupid question that only occurred to me this morning. I was considering the differences between Obama's health care program and McCain's non-program. I say McCain's is a non-program because he doesn't appear to create any government insurance, whereas Obama would, presumably create one.
Obama says that he offers a choice. That the ordinary insured American pays about 12k annually for health insurance. McCain says we pay 5.8k. Big difference, but leave that aside for a moment. If you like your current health care program, says Obama, you can keep it. Or you can take his program. So what does the Obama program cost and how much do I have to come out of my pocket for it? That's the stupid question: Isn't Obama's health care program free?
The implications are kind of obvious to me. If I can get free health care, why would I want to pay for any at all? How can a free health care program co-exist with one that presumably cost 12k, or even 5.8k? There are a lot of implications here, but I'll leave it to a camel-nose-in-the-tent metaphor for short. It's clear that Obama has it in for the insurance industry, a free government health insurance program seems like an obvious way to put them out of business.
The other stupid question is, of course, how long will it take the free public program to be as good as the private one? If the goal is to say "We insure everybody in America, no matter what.", then it never has to be as good.
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